Floyd Gibbons (1887-1939) was a war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune whose reporting turned Belleau Wood into legend. Badly wounded himself in the first days of the battle, he filed his most famous dispatch from a hospital bed. It is a story about immigrants: Most of the U.S. Marines who fought[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Immigrants’
November 30th, 2017 - 5:38 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Acquittal in Steinle murder trial
During the 2016 campaign, President Trump exploited the Kate Steinle shooting as a vehicle to rail against illegal immigrants and promote his border wall. A jury today decided her death was an accident. The defense claimed Garcia Zarate merely picked up a shirt he found lying on a bench, and a gun[...]
May 24th, 2016 - 10:54 am § in Politics
SeaTac’s ex-city manager denies asking for “tactical map” of Muslim residents
Even in the context of the American right’s current Islamophobia, this is over the top. James “Donny” Payne served as interim city manager of SeaTac, Washington, for only a few months — from January to April of 2016. But during his brief tenure, Payne quickly became controver[...]
What is an “unauthorized” immigrant
David Preston Not trying to start a fight, but what’s with this new term “unauthorized”? That makes it sound like they’re trespassing or something. . I like “illegal immigrants” because it’s both descriptive and neutral. They are immigrants and, yes, they[...]